Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich didn’t qualify for inclusion on the Virginia ballot but Mitt Romney and RON PAUL did? Really? How exactly does that work, smurf vote or something? Papa Smurf calls all those little blue bastards together and they debate candidate’s strengths and weaknesses… and then I had an aneurysm?

Ron Paul is a nasty, fear mongering little weasel who has said publicly that we are to blame for provoking the 9/11 attacks and privately thinks that 9/11 was an inside job. That Dr. Martin Luther King was pretty damn uppity and the day we celebrate Dr. King’s life is “Hate Whitey Day”.

Paul has published a conspiracy-toned newsletter selling his own opinions on everything from ‘New Money’ to the upcoming ‘Race Wars’ and the ‘government’s homosexual AIDS coverup’ for many years… A snippet:

Lots more at Doug Ross.

And people want to put this man in the White House?

He yammers on about surviving New Money, surviving federal involvement, yada yada… Hell, we have to focus on surviving Ron Paul!

UPDATE:

From Big Government:

On the evening of Sept. 16, 2009, I was invited to a function for Rand Paul’s U.S. Senate campaign at the headquarters of Americans for Tax Reform.

I had been invited by a friend of mine via Facebook who was a passionate supporter of Ron Paul. Within minutes of arriving, I saw Rep. Paul enter the room, followed by an entourage of several college students.

I immediately walked up to Paul and introduced myself, and Paul smiled at me and shook my hand. I told him that I had always wanted to ask him a question, and that it was a hypothetical question, but I would appreciate his answer nonetheless. Paul smiled, and welcomed the question. At this point there were about 15 people surrounding us, listening.

And so I asked Congressman Paul: if he were President of the United States during World War II, and as president he knew what we now know about the Holocaust, but the Third Reich presented no threat to the U.S., would he have sent American troops to Nazi Germany purely as a moral imperative to save the Jews?

And the Congressman answered:

“No, I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t risk American lives to do that. If someone wants to do that on their own because they want to do that, well, that’s fine, but I wouldn’t do that.”

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In 2007, the Congressman actually faulted Abraham Lincoln for using military force to end slavery in the Civil War: “He shouldn’t have gone to war… Slavery was phased out in every other country in the world and the way I’m advising that it should have been done is do like the British Empire did; you buy the slaves and release them.”

The man is an extreme isolationist but that’s only the tip of his perverted iceberg of a world view…

He goes, or we do.

It probably says something about us that we think Daisy’s mower obsession ‘cute’. She’s tearing it apart, bit by bit, thinking something nefarious hidden within.

Well, it helps fulfill her requirements for happiness.

All breeds have their special abilities and of course Dachshunds have an aptitude for hunting – not to mention killing. The time Zoe attacked a coral snake comes to mind; she just instinctively knew what to do… and did it.

Developed by Germans to scent and flush out prey, most notoriously badgers, they will go anywhere, do almost anything, contort their bodies into any shape possible, in order to accomplish their goal.

Dachshunds are special dogs; brave, tenacious, loyal and funny.

And alert.

…and protective.

Did I mention stubborn?

E. B. White:

“Being the owner of dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the dachshund and why he can’t be trained and shouldn’t be. I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a dachshund to heed my slightest command. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. He even disobeys me when I instruct him in something he wants to do.”

I love Dachshunds.

Of course, not all dogs are interested in hunting.

Bree will rout the tree rats and give chase, but only because she recognizes them as a threat to home and family. Fortunately she sees no need to tear the mower apart, a fact for which I am grateful.

I love Collies as well and the disparity makes me laugh.

Salon:

Our Constitution was written to restrict government’s power and to ensure our rights as citizens. I don’t care what a United States citizen has done, we are guaranteed the right to a trial.

Terrorism seems a cause just enough to codify such a venerated document, eh? Not when it means the military can arrest and detain us for… well, ever… on suspicion of terrorist activities. Are there homegrown terrorists? Yes. Do they deserve all the rights guaranteed them under the Constitution? Yes. YES!

What’s so difficult to understand about representation, a speedy trial and judgement carried out under the law?

And it breaks my heart that Allen West voted ‘aye’.